I hear you. I also prefer books. I just get impatient waiting for them from my library.

It's easier just to find a pirate site and download them.

If you love books and literature, please pay for them if you have the means. Authors, good and great ones, give up their trade because they need to eat. Talented authors, aspiring poets cannot get a deal because publishing houses can’t take a chance on talent anymore now readers are buying less books. It’s going to be all Dan Brown, Harry Potter and 50 shades if we don’t buy books fellas.

Yes, but how long would you wait before she gives you what you want, knowing that all this time she's giving what you want to other people?

King of comparisons!

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He's been with us for yearsThrough the lower leaguesPlaying as wing-backIt's our mighty Matt

Oooooh Matt DohertyOld-gold propertyAlways has been trueWanderers' number 2★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★“RAPID scores goals like Marco van Basten”(PTC)“RAPID is the Magical Negro whose special powers make us all better at Fantasy Footie”(scoobyliscious)

He's been with us for yearsThrough the lower leaguesPlaying as wing-backIt's our mighty Matt

Oooooh Matt DohertyOld-gold propertyAlways has been trueWanderers' number 2★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★“RAPID scores goals like Marco van Basten”(PTC)“RAPID is the Magical Negro whose special powers make us all better at Fantasy Footie”(scoobyliscious)

Charlie, how important to keep the books order in the series? Is it better to follow it?

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He's been with us for yearsThrough the lower leaguesPlaying as wing-backIt's our mighty Matt

Oooooh Matt DohertyOld-gold propertyAlways has been trueWanderers' number 2★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★“RAPID scores goals like Marco van Basten”(PTC)“RAPID is the Magical Negro whose special powers make us all better at Fantasy Footie”(scoobyliscious)

Charlie, how important to keep the books order in the series? Is it better to follow it?

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He's been with us for yearsThrough the lower leaguesPlaying as wing-backIt's our mighty Matt

Oooooh Matt DohertyOld-gold propertyAlways has been trueWanderers' number 2★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★“RAPID scores goals like Marco van Basten”(PTC)“RAPID is the Magical Negro whose special powers make us all better at Fantasy Footie”(scoobyliscious)

He's been with us for yearsThrough the lower leaguesPlaying as wing-backIt's our mighty Matt

Oooooh Matt DohertyOld-gold propertyAlways has been trueWanderers' number 2★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★“RAPID scores goals like Marco van Basten”(PTC)“RAPID is the Magical Negro whose special powers make us all better at Fantasy Footie”(scoobyliscious)

Murakami's Murder of Commendatore: ok-ish. Not a great fan of his recent work.Rushdie's Two years, eight months, twenty-eight nights: great storytelling. He's never been known for the subtlety of his metaphors, so that's a given, but I always enjoy his books.David Vann's Goat Mountain. Very intense story. Really powerful and a little weird. I liked it very much.

He's been with us for yearsThrough the lower leaguesPlaying as wing-backIt's our mighty Matt

Oooooh Matt DohertyOld-gold propertyAlways has been trueWanderers' number 2★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★“RAPID scores goals like Marco van Basten”(PTC)“RAPID is the Magical Negro whose special powers make us all better at Fantasy Footie”(scoobyliscious)

Not necessarily. But being weird in literature can mean being highly original. Granted, it can turn into an easy chasing of effects, but good weird just causes your perspective to shift, if only for the lenght of a book.

Not necessarily. But being weird in literature can mean being highly original. Granted, it can turn into an easy chasing of effects, but good weird just causes your perspective to shift, if only for the lenght of a book.

Can you say the same for... life?

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He's been with us for yearsThrough the lower leaguesPlaying as wing-backIt's our mighty Matt

Oooooh Matt DohertyOld-gold propertyAlways has been trueWanderers' number 2★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★“RAPID scores goals like Marco van Basten”(PTC)“RAPID is the Magical Negro whose special powers make us all better at Fantasy Footie”(scoobyliscious)

Not necessarily. But being weird in literature can mean being highly original. Granted, it can turn into an easy chasing of effects, but good weird just causes your perspective to shift, if only for the lenght of a book.

We have a theory in my family, after we all universally panned Gregory Maguire's Wicked: you know, the one that became a Broadway musical sensation? Terrible book. It was like a song with a great hook, ruined by lots of noise and a chorus that you couldn't sing along to.

Anyway, the book wasn't weird so much as confusing: he would build to a point, stop short of any explicit action to provide a climax to said point and then start the next chapter in the middle of the something completely different. You kept wondering if you missed something, or when he would return to that action / point; only he never did, leaving you confused through much of the book (which, be honest, is a fluff piece pseudo-attempt to tell a story from a different perspective without actually embracing nor helping you understand how a character seen as wicked sees herself as righteous; perspective and all that).

Our theory? If the underlying writing is good enough (pacing / action) and the book leaves readers confused, then many people will embrace it as "genius" rather than denigrate it as execrable because people assume being confused is their problem and not due to the author.

Weird, to me, is similar. "That book was weird enough that I didn't understand why it was weird, but I enjoyed reading it, so it must be genius!" It could just be well-written weirdness, which is neither good nor bad, but a matter of taste regarding that particular flavor of weird (weird, like ice cream, comes in lots of flavors and few of us really like all the flavors).

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I used to stay out late and try to walk the Muse home. Now I get up fresh-faced at 7 a.m. and take advantage of her while she's passing out.-Bono